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The Hour of Eugenics"
Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated "race improvement" through selective human breeding. In Europe and the United States the …
Picturing Tropical Nature
Whether as sublime landscape, malignant wilderness, or a site for environmental conflicts and eco-tourism, tropical nature is to a great extent an American and European imaginative …
The Hour of Eugenics"
Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated "race improvement" through selective human breeding. In Europe and the United States the …
Eradication
The dream of a world completely free of disease may seem utopian, but eradication-used in its modern sense to mean the reduction of the number of cases of a disease to zero by …
Picturing Tropical Nature
Whether considered a sublime landscape, malignant wilderness, or the endangered site of environmental conflicts, the tropics are, Picturing Tropical Nature argues, largely a …
Hour of Eugenics"e;
Stepan's warning regarding the politics of scientific interpretation in the future seems most appropriate.... This is an important book, meticulously done, and will be of …